This site has two faces. Originally started as a forum where I provide free medical advice online, for English-speaking patients. It now incorporated this blog where I discuss eHealth issues, mostly from the business viewpoint.A small advantage of being based in Argentina is that I can do things like this, out of reach for American …
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Use of Computer Videogames for Psychological and Medical Purposes – III
Promotion strategy in the academic area Together with selling software and data analysis services, academic research will be pursued to demonstrate effectiveness of the system. Psychology units in Buenos Aires will carry the initial research. Joint agreements will be proposed to international professional or scientific institutions interested in the new instrument. Competitive advantages of the …
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Use of Computer Videogames for Psychological and Medical Purposes – II
Remote psychological advice. The unit executing this project will make and sell the module, and keep a centralized data analysis center. This center will have several roles: – to collect the encrypted files sent by the users – to keep statistics on them, taking into account geographical, ethnic, cultural and other factors. – to inform …
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Use of Computer Videogames for Psychological and Medical Purposes – I
A research and product development proposal Use of the computer games in Psychology. Many psychological tests are being implemented in personal computers, and some have a game-like interface. Videogame-like psychological tests are easy to implement in children and in adults with a negative attitude to conventional tests. These tests are currently applied to eye-visual coordination, …
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Privacy concerns over EMR systems
I was researching EMRs for a Congress presentation, as I mentioned before, and the privacy concerns were among the top issues for both doctors and medical administrators. It is known that Google and Microsoft are making progress with their products, expecting everyone to have online EMRs in short time. It caused me a little trouble …
Medical Knowledge Marketplace
Imagine a situation where a complicated case is exposed to an unexperienced doctor, far from a high complexity center. Today, the universal EMR is very uncommon. Even when broad-band Internet connections are widely available in most cities, most patients do not have access to their medical records. However, let ‘s assume that this patient has …
Working in the intersection of Medicine and Internet
I conceive the near future of medical care as a connected, distributed space where only a few persons have direct contact with the patient, and a number of consultants examine the relevant data and make recommendations. The eHealth paradigm will make medicine ultra-specialized, a bit de-personalized, fast and cheap. The current e-business models are taking …
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A comparison of different EMR systems
From request from a client, I presented a paper at the Latin American Congress of Medical Informatics, INFOLAC, here in Buenos Aires. He produces an EMR product with some state-of-the-art features, and he wanted to introduce the subject into the med-info communitiy. In parallel, I was looking for a product that I could use for …